Word: reductionism
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On the campaign trail and in a series of recent debates, Bush has begun, slowly, to find his voice. He doesn't wait patiently for his turn to answer questions but jumps in to defend himself when one of his opponents attacks. And he is no longer too cautious to...
"With [class size] in mind we reduced discussion section sizes from 20 to 18 two years ago," Todd says. "And once we have settled into this size we would probably like to make another reduction, perhaps to 15."
Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine says that the reduction of section size was one goal of the University as a part of the capital campaign.
I'm now bracing for another January campaign to stampede us all toward the scales. The Jenny Craig weight-reduction program has just launched a series of commercials featuring Monica Lewinsky. They compete with an already existing Weight Watchers campaign that features Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York. Weight-reduction programs...
This totemic reduction of nature--the streamlining of a bird's body, the swish of its flight--was a prediction of the technological world to come in the second half of the century. RUNNERS-UP Guitar by Pablo Picasso; The Chariot by Alberto Giacometti